### Method

# Gio File delete_async

since: 2.34

#### Declaration [src]

    void
    g_file_delete_async (
      GFile* file,
      int io_priority,
      GCancellable* cancellable,
      GAsyncReadyCallback callback,
      gpointer user_data
    )

#### Description [src]

Asynchronously delete a file. If the `file` is a directory, it will only be deleted if it is empty. This has the same semantics as g_unlink().

Available since: 2.34

This method completes asynchronously. Use `g_file_delete_finish()` inside the `GAsyncReadyCallback` to obtain the result of the operation.

#### Parameters

`io_priority`

  Type: `int`

  The I/O priority of the request.

`cancellable`

  Type: `GCancellable`

  Optional `GCancellable` object, `NULL` to ignore.

  The argument can be `NULL`.
  The data is owned by the caller of the method.

`callback`

  Type: `GAsyncReadyCallback`

  A `GAsyncReadyCallback` to call when the request is satisfied.

  The argument can be `NULL`.

`user_data`

  Type: `gpointer`

  The data to pass to callback function.

  The argument can be `NULL`.
  The data is owned by the caller of the method.